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This morning, Mark Horgan, Senior Programme Advisor - Education Sector ICT from the Ministry of Education spent the morning at CORE Education speaking to local educators at a breakfast seminar.

Mark’s presentation focused on the issue of “Supporting learning in a connected sector through the smart use of ICT”. Mark provided an overview of Education Sector ICT, introducing the New Zealand ICT Strategic Framework for Education (http://www.minedu.govt.nz/goto/ictframework), and the development of foundation sector-wide shared ICT services. Despite the chilly Christchurch morning we had a great turnout, almost 30 people joined us for breakfast. We had a good mix of educators from primary to tertiary, the group was made up of principals, Board of Trustees members and Teachers in charge of ICT.

CORE’s Early Childhood Education, Information, Communication and Technology Programme (ECEICTPL) Team recently coordinated and hosted 60 Early Childhood Education Teachers at an iLead Conference in Auckland.

CORE Education invites you to attend a symposia on e-learning in education and training with International keynote speaker:

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Tony will provide insights into the current trends in e-learning and learning technologies internationally and their impact on vocational education and training.

He will also comment on current New Zealand activities and address a range of issues associated with e-learning resources and learning technologies in education on and off the Web.Tony Bates is President and CEO of Tony Bates Associates Ltd, a private company specialising in consultancy and training in the planning and management of e-learning and distance education

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Projects using mobile phones in class, ICT to get kids away from ICT, mobile sensors, ePortfolios and blended learning enthused an audience of around 30 Christchurch teachers and administrators recently.

The New Zealand-developed web editor may have missed out on the big awards at a major US education conference this year, but it ran away with the now-compulsory “People’s Choice” gong.   The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe), a tool for developing educational content for websites without the need to know web languages, was vying with other technologies at the Learning Impact conference in Austin, Texas. eXe won a consolation “learning impact leadership award” at the conference but also ran away with the People’s Choice award.

The eXe software is an environment for authoring web-based e-learning content and is freely available for Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It has been downloaded thousands of times and is available in more than two dozen language translations.

Christchurch educationalist Derek Wenmoth has been named by the United States-based George Lucas Education Foundation as one of the Global Six - recognising outstanding contributions to teaching.

CORE is pleased to welcome Mary Anne Mills to the team.

A tool for developing educational content for websites without the need to know web languages is an international award finalist at the Learning Impact annual conference in Austin, Texas this month.

CORE Education is a member of iNZed International Group Ltd. We welcome expressions of interest from educators who would like to join our team to work on a three-year Professional Learning and Development project in the Northern States of Malaysia.

This week the ICT PD Cluster programme annual online conference began. Time4 Innovation will be held between 26 May-13 June 2008 and will provide a place of focus for the innovation occurring in cluster schools, opportunities to explore relevant theory about effective learning, and a forum for discussion and sharing of ideas.

The ULearn 08 conference run by CORE Education NZ for teachers is an incredible opportunity for networking, sharing experiences and learning, visiting UK educationalists say.

Richard Millwood, Sarah Jones and Malcolm Moss from sister organisation CORE UK, visited New Zealand to participate in the ULearn 08 conference and other seminars and workshops.

“The ULearn conference may have come and gone but its size and impact on those attending mean that the effects will continue to be felt across the educational community for some time yet.”

Ministry of Education Project Leader, eLearning Capability, Neil Melhuish, shared these comments with his colleagues around the Ministry before sending them to CORE Education as feedback on ULearn 08.